Not sure the band had a lot of unreleased studio tracks ready to go at that time, as was the case with Pious Bird. I think that Vaudeville Years and Show-Biz Blues collect most of the studio out-takes from that period, and many of those tracks are ones that showed up on Then Play On.
But from BBC recordings the band had done over the past year or so, and numbers from their live shows, they would have had plenty to record had they wanted to. And I'd guess that some of the tracks that went onto Kiln House could have made their way onto the studio album you're envisioning, Vinnie.
I'd agree that they would not have included "Green Manalishi" or "World In Harmony" on a new album since they'd already been released as a single.
Danny had the most ready-to-go numbers that had not yet been recorded outside of BBC sessions - "Talk With You", "Only You", "Loving Kind", "Like It This Way", and "Something Inside Of Me" being obvious choices to me. And as noted, he'd already been working out what was to become "Earl Grey".
Jeremy was doing "I Can't Hold Out", "Stranger Blues", and "Tiger" at many of the shows that spring, and he'd done "Honey Hush" for a BBC session. Those would all be possibilities.
Peter didn't have much new original material that we know of at that point, aside from "Sandy Mary". But there were plenty of other numbers he excelled at on live recordings that might have been included - "Jumping At Shadows", "All Over Again", "Homework", and maybe "It Takes Time" being good options. Plus - remember that The Original Fleetwood Mac had not been released at that point, and Peter could easily have updated some of those numbers (as he'd already done with "Drifting" and "Leaving Town Blues" as noted above) - "A Fool No More", "Watch Out", and "Worried Dream" might have been other good tracks that could have been re-recorded for a new album.
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